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He retired in 1995 after the conclusion of his second term. He was the first left-wing President of the Fifth Republic; his presidential tenure was the longest of any French Republic. 22 Jacques Chirac [30] (1932–2019) 17 May 1995 16 May 2007 11 years, 364 days Rally for the Republic (until 2002) Union for a Popular Movement (from 2002) 1995 ...
The Socialist incumbent president François Mitterrand, who had been in office since 1981, did not stand for a third term.He was 78, had terminal cancer, and his party had lost the 1993 French legislative election in a landslide defeat.
The following is a list [1] [2] [3] of presidents of France sorted by length of tenure. François Mitterrand was President for 14 years. Jacques Chirac was President for 12 years. Charles de Gaulle was President for 10 years, provisional head of state for 2 years, and leader of Free France for 4 years.
Chirac was the first president of France to take responsibility for the deportation of Jews during the Vichy regime. In a speech made on 16 July 1995 at the site of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, where 13,000 Jews had been held for deportation to concentration camps in July 1942, Chirac said, "France, on that day, committed the irreparable". Those ...
13 June – President Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia. 18 June – Municipal Elections held. 25 July – a gas bottle explodes in the Saint-Michel – Notre-Dame station, killing 8 and wounding 80 people. (see: 1995 Paris Metro bombing) 17 August – a bomb at the Arc de Triomphe wounds 17 people.
Following constitutional reform in November 1962 (the constitutional Act of 6 November), pushed by President de Gaulle, the president has been directly elected by the people of France in a two-round election. [2] Until a 24 September 2000 constitutional referendum, the president had been elected for a seven-year term since 1974. With the ...
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand [a] (26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) was a French politician and statesman who served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, the longest holder of that position in the history of France.
Interim President of France, as President of the Senate. Stood in the 1969 election but was defeated in the second round by Georges Pompidou. 19 Georges Pompidou [128] (1911–1974) 20 June 1969 2 April 1974 † 4 years, 286 days Union of Democrats for the Republic: 1969: Prime Minister under Charles de Gaulle, 1962–1968.